Sports clinic closes doors

Brendan Gullifer

AN EASTERN suburbs sports clinic linked to the drugs in sport scandal has closed.

The Rejuvenation Clinic at Bondi Junction, which sold anti-ageing medicine and sports performance supplements, had ''ceased operations immediately'' according to a statement released on Friday night.

It was closed because of ''false and defamatory statements made in the media'', it said. ''The clinic will not re-open until … it has regained the trust and confidence of the people of Sydney.''

Director Stephen Dank, the sacked Essendon sports science guru, was named in the Organised Crime and Drugs in Sport report by the Australian Crime Commission last week. Mr Dank insisted he had done nothing wrong and said he would sue over coverage of his role in the scandal.